Medidoc

Open source & collaborative medical texts

While medidoc is under production (in between many other projects),
here's an excerpt from the Form of the Book by Jan Tschichold--part of
demo content that comes with the tachyons css
framework on which this landing page is based.

TYPOGRAPHY, even when poorly executed, can never be taken for granted;
nor is it ever accidental.
Indeed, beautifully typeset pages are always
the result of long experience. Now and then they even attain the rank of
great artistic achievement. But the art of typesetting stands apart from
expressive artwork, because the appeal is not limited to a small
circle. It is open to everyone's critical judgment, and nowhere does this
judgment carry more weight. Typography that cannot be read by everybody
is useless. Even for someone who constantly ponders matters of
readability and legibility, it is difficult to determine whether
something can be read with ease, but the average reader will rebel at
once when the type is too small or otherwise irritates the eye; both are
signs of a certain illegibility already.

All typography consists of letters. These appear either in the form of a
smoothly running sentence or as an assembly of lines, which may even have
contrasting shapes. Good typography begins, and this is no minor
matter, with the typesetting of a single line of text in a book or a
newspaper. Using exactly the same typeface, it is possible to create either
a pleasant line, easily read, or an onerous one. Spacing, if it is too wide
or too compressed, will spoil almost any typeface.